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My thoughts on Nintendo's 2019 E3 Direct
I haven't paid a lot of attention to 2019's E3 outside of the surprise Keanu Reeves appearance, but today was Nintendo's time to shine.
That's all the introduction you need.
Here's the 40-minute video. Let's talk about it.
Kicking off the Direct was a flashy cinematic of Ultimate's World of Light in which Link was rescued by The Hero, our next DLC fighter and Dragon Quest representative.
You'd think that would be the big news. Yet Nintendo had one more trick up their sleeve to conclude the Direct:
Banjo-Kazooie.
I've never played a DQ game or Banjo-Kazooie, but I know plenty of people who love those series and I'm happy to see them so happy.
Especially given the love and attention both fighters are getting. The Hero has multiple alternate costumes and a final smash featuring different protagonists from that series, Grant Kirkhope was involved in doing the music for Banjo…
It's just perfect.
Dragon Quest fans and Banjo fans getting their character announced on the same day. pic.twitter.com/duEKvje5nA
— Glass of Water (@Glassofwater420) June 11, 2019
Masahiro Sakurai truly is the king of reviving Nintendo history, and looping in Rare was a great way to include a fighter with die-hard fans who fits in the roster far better than Minecraft Steve or Master Chief.
Look at how hype the Donkey Kong characters are for Banjo and Kazooie
The Rareware gang reunites pic.twitter.com/jvdfQzDytj
— King Crimson I.A. (@Kaleb_IA) June 11, 2019
Great way to bookend the Direct.
Image courtesy of My Nintendo News
Luigi's Mansion 3
Subtitle: Hotel Mario 2?
Though I wasn't a huge a fan of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon compared to the original, this game looks pretty incredible. It has a creepy atmosphere directly reminiscent of Ghostbusters mixed with a Super Mario Sunshine vacation plot.
And it has built-in Gooigi multiplayer, unlike the shoed-in stuff for the Luigi's Mansion 3DS remake.
I'm pretty into this game honestly. Especially after seeing this kaiju boss reveal Nintendo put out after the Direct:
Meet one of the monstrous bosses in #LuigisMansion3! See what other spooky ghosts you'll meet when the game launches this year. #NintendoTreehouseLive
📺https://t.co/oxGuEcJ8Omhttps://t.co/uOh1HjCbwn pic.twitter.com/p3oCpyjH2j
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 11, 2019
It's just too bad Nintendo has a billion other great games coming out, or Luigi swinging a chair around with a vacuum would be at the top of my list.
Image courtesy of engaget
Link's Awakening
Here's one of those games that unfortunately pushes Luigi's Mansion aside.
I was incredibly excited for this remake of a Zelda game I've always heard praised but never took the time to play when they announced it a few months back.
The new trailer didn't show too much more than its Sept. 20 release date…
EXCEPT FOR A TOP-DOWN 2D DUNGEON CREATOR.
THE THING I LITERALLY ASKED FOR WHEN I GRADUATED:
Now that I'm a grad I feel qualified to discuss the question that truly defines our age:
How many copies of #MarioMaker2 do we need to buy to get a top-down Zelda dungeon maker @NintendoAmerica? With themes for the NES Zelda, Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Minish Cap, etc. pic.twitter.com/IsJSASbyCK
— Jason Rochlin (@jdrochlin) May 20, 2019
Thanks Nintendo, you always make my dreams come true. Just be sure to add Minish Cap into the official Zelda Maker.
Image courtesy of Nintendo UK
I wrote a Fire Emblem Heroes post just this morning, so of course I was going to talk about this game.
All we got today was a cinematic trailer that mostly stood out because some character had a sword that turned into a bone whip. Which is fine because we got a big gameplay trailer already.
It mainly featured lore that won't make a ton of sense until the game releases in…
Wait, late July?
Damn, I thought I had more time. Stop making so many games I want to buy Nintendo, I'm still addicted to Stardew Valley for the next few months!
Pokémon Sword and Shield
I wasn't expecting any new Pokémon news after the recent Direct, but Nintendo truly is a benevolent overlord.
During the presentation we found out that the Pokéball peripheral from Let's Go can act as a modern day Pokéwalker and that the Water-type Gym Leader will be Nessa:
Image courtesy of Serebii.net
She's a little derivative of Shelly from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, but not a bad design at all.
During the Nintendo Treehouse we discovered the existence of a perfect Electric-type pup named Yamper and a little Dark/Fairy gremlin named Impidimp:
Images courtesy of Serebii.net
my thoughts on yamper pic.twitter.com/6eCjk7TUzh
— amy || BANJO'S IN SMASH (@spellwells) June 11, 2019
One of them is God's perfect child and the other is his greatest mistake.
However, we also found out that not every Pokémon in the National Dex will be compatible with Sword and Shield, which is a step in the wrong direction after Sun and Moon already didn't have a Pokédex entry for every monster you could collect.
Go check out Serebii's page, because they have the full list of everything from today.
Image courtesy of Sonic the Hedgehog on YouTube
Then there's this.
Look I played the first couple Olympic crossover games with my sister and they were decent minigame collections.
But the fact that this series is still going astounds me.
Some of you would probably prefer I put Cadence of Hyrule in this major slot since it looks cool and is only $25 bucks, which definitely entices me to buy the game when it drops this Thursday in spite of never playing Crypt of the Necrodancer.
But… I just did.
Image courtesy of Mashable
Like Reggie Fils-Amie, I put a lot of time into Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
New Horizons not only looks like a wonderful graphical update to the series, but an update that allows for 8-player simultaneous action while potentially building a town from scratch.
That's… Pretty god damn incredible. Definitely worth pushing the release date to March 2020!
Already Nintendo has me feeling all:
NINTENDO RIGHT NOW pic.twitter.com/Mi3Ym74ENf
— Sam / Joe 🌌 (@Trudermark) June 11, 2019
But we're not done just yet.
The Highlight Reel
The reel always has a billion things, so let's lightning round what stood out to me.
Spyro Reignited Trilogy — A good get.
Hollow Knight Silksong — WHY NO RELEASE DATE?!
Minecraft Dungeons — This Diablo-style spin-off was announced during the Microsoft conference and I'm intrigued.
Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein Youngblood and Alien: Isolation — Glad to know Nintendo is sticking with mature titles.
Stranger Things 3 — A Zombies Ate my Neighbors-esque Netflix crossover? I'll look at this with Alyson…
Catan — What can I say, my Gaming in American Culture class made me a fan.
Breath of the Wild 2…?
Time to address the elephant in the room.
I made a big deal out of returning to Breath of the Wild. Yet… I didn't actually finish the whole game.
Turns out I should get moving on that again.
Breath of the Wild is getting a direct sequel, bringing it in-line with Majora's Mask and the Wind Waker series. A sequel where Link and Zelda are going to be traveling the ravaged Hyrule together and discover some demented shit.
The trailer was just an "in development" teaser, but they sure did succeed in making it emotionally provocative. I'm curious to find out more… Though a lot of that is based on hype from my friends' speculations.
Which means I guess I have to go finish Breath of the Wild.
Damn you, Nintendo. Quit monopolizing my time when you're about to monopolize my time with all these new games!
Those were the big ticket items out of this E3 Direct for me, but there were a lot of smaller things that piqued my interest too.
A Final Fantasy Tactics-type game for The Dark Crystal, No More Heroes 3 with weird Star Wars jokes and Gundam fights and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 among them. Plus the Switch is getting the return of Contra, The Witcher 3, Secret of Mana, Resident Evil 5 and 6 and a Panzer Dragoon remake.
Nintendo really knocked it out of the park this year, especially considering the rest of E3 wasn't phenomenal from what I've heard.
Though was there any doubt when they began their Direct by capitalizing on the "Bowser is Nintendo of America's new president" joke?
All they're missing is this:
nintendo direct opens up with this wyd pic.twitter.com/GgsWEgVbo1
— GetMadz (@GetMoreMadz) June 10, 2019
Let me know what you thought of Nintendo's E3 Direct! What game are you most excited for?
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Statistically surpassing 2017
About three days ago, the amount of views my blog has accrued this year surpassed the total from 2017.
With a lead-in sentence like that I'm sure you're expecting this post to be an exercise in prideful self-fellatio.
To an extent I suppose it is, but part of the reason why it's cool is because of interesting insights I believe I can pull out of the analytics. As I tend to look at.
For instance, here are the yearly statistics as of my writing this:
The bar graph shows an overall trend toward increasing views, and that's sensible considering my blog has evolved from a class requirement to a digital resume and regular part of my writing life.
In 2018 the number of views jumped sizably compared to the growth from 2016 to 2017 due to my Summer Initiative and its aftermath.
Last summer was when I shifted the emphasis of my blog from writing a few times a month (mostly archiving stories) to writing nearly every day.
The jump from 1,944 to 4,210 views makes sense when audiences have a higher volume of content to consume on an almost daily schedule.
Notice the shift around June 2018.
And that was when I only wrote daily for half the year.
This year I'm halfway to that number and we're only at the end of May, which bodes well for further growth. Especially if I get a few more breakout posts like my Redondo Union Archives write-up:
Post uploaded on March 25, 2019
I may be on-track to surpass 2018 in views, but other aspects are faltering.
"Likes" is one statistic I have trouble explaining due to the lack of a noticeable tracker on WordPress. I can tell you that I received 129 likes on my posts in 2018 compared to the paltry seven in 2019 so far, but I can't tell you why that might be.
However, I can say something about the trend in daily views and viewers.
As you can see in the 2017 v. 2019 analytics, I surpassed my views from two years ago with about 30 fewer individual visitors.
I've also noticed a pattern of more views-per-day recently in spite of less visitors coming overall. I used to see about six or seven views at most every day, but recently it has hovered closer to 20:
Even yesterday, where I was so busy with family Memorial Day barbecuing and playing Minecraft with my friends that I didn't write a blog post, my site received 33 views.
The last time I hit views near that high was April 24, when I wrote about my collection of graduation gowns.
If nothing else, I hope this post can be a positive affirmation for you regular viewers that people notice when you put extra energy into something. Even when that something is as silly as a personal blog.
I find the analytics fascinating to sort through so I hope you found them just as interesting to consume!
But if you didn't, how about you take a look at this views-per-country breakdown:
Because the map is always a fun thing to see in my opinion.
Featured Image courtesy of Carlos Muza via Wikimedia Commons
The Rochlins watch GTFO
My Gaming in American Culture class has taken me all over the proverbial map when it comes to consuming all different kinds of media.
From tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons or Barbie to re-reading books like Ender's Game or Ready Player One with new lenses. From watching terrible video game-based movies like Tom Hanks' Mazes and Monsters to documentaries like Second Skin that touch on the psychological effects of an increasingly isolated digital culture.
For my upcoming class, I had to watch a kickstarted documentary from 2015 called GTFO.
But this time I was not alone. GTFO is all about the treatment of females in the video game industry — both in production and play. That particular subject matter drew interest from other members of the Rochlin household:
I'm assuming they would have otherwise rolled their eyes at the prospect of a documentary about video games (or at least Aly would), so it's nice that we all had a subject to collectively appreciate.
… Well, it's not nice that we had to appreciate the examination of sexual harassment/discrimination/misogyny/insert-buzzword-here in any industry.
That's about what you can expect here, if you're interested in the subject.
Subjects ranged from women being pressured in professional eSports, the distinct lack of females in game production (only occupying about 10 percent of the industry), the day-to-day harassment in the voice chats of games like Call of Duty, and more large-scale harassment public scandals like Gamergate.
Though Gamergate was a smaller subject, as the major example of harassment highlighted was Aris Bakhtanians' treatment of Miranda Pakozdi on a livestream marketing campaign for Street Fighter x Tekken in 2012.
I wasn't privy to that particular story prior to the documentary, but luckily journalists like Jason Schreier have always done their jobs well.
It's crazy stuff, but not that crazy. Which is an unfortunate takeaway of the documentary to me.
When interviewees shared and even read out examples of terrible rape- and death-threat filled messages they'd received while gaming, my mom and sister seemed pretty shocked.
And yeah, there was some pretty graphic and intense shit read out.
Yet I've been gaming for a long time and saw the proliferated multiplayer days of Halo 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360 — before I refused to fix my broken console to spite my friends for some ultimately forgotten comment that annoyed me.
I've seen that kind of stuff happen, and I have a lot of female friends who play video games that have similar stories to tell.
So I can't say I was surprised by anything in the documentary.
Which is unfortunate in itself, but the reality of the situation.
However, it's not a reality that everyone knows about as multiple subjects remarked. The fact that such a well-composed and thorough documentary exists is great in that regard.
I'd definitely recommend watching it for that reason: More awareness is never a bad thing — even if it might put you back $5 for the day.
Especially given some interesting ideas fielded, such as hoping that encouraging more women to get involved at all levels would cause the toxicity to recess. It's much harder to attack a woman if there are eight in the voice chat than if there's only one or two.
But that's enough of me sucking the oxygen out of the room.
I watched a documentary about treatment of women with a couple women, so it only seems right to let them have the last words.
Dara's Corner:
I've always been aware of misogyny and how it is used in the video game industry. However, I was not prepared for how deeply pervasive it really was portrayed in this documentary. It think a lot of the problem stems from the anonymity allowed, and like my husband says, "on the internet, no one knows you are a dog…"
(And Introducing) Aly's Corner:
Yayyy I finally get one of these! I walked into watching this thinking I'd be bored out of my mind, but it was actually super well done and intriguing for me. I never really considered myself a gamer, mostly because I can't just sit down and spend hours finishing a game (Jason can attest to that), but the treatment that women in gaming go through is everywhere in society, and it's kinda scary to see.
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My top 10 games of 2018
I always feel like it's cliché for me to throw one of these lists together since it's something EVERYONE does. But the more I think of it as a window into what I love, the less bad I feel about it.
After all, looking at my 2017 list pretty much just reminded me that I had to cop-out with mobile games and Jackbox because I played so few games. Pretty wild.
This year I don't have that problem luckily! Just remember the most important rule of all with a list like this:
This is all my opinion, so don't get your panties in a twist if I don't talk about your favorite game (there are plenty of experiences unfortunately still sitting on my wishlist).
Don't Starve and the number 9 game on this list may have been higher, but they're both technically re-releases of games that I played years ago. So to be fair to newer games, I decided to keep them on the lower end.
Don't let the low score deceive you, however. I love Don't Starve as much as anything else on the list, if not more for nostalgia's sake!
Alongside The Binding of Isaac, Terraria and FTL (and no I haven't had the chance to play Into the Breach yet… Sorry Kyle), this Tim Burton-styled survival game was one of the most played titles in my Steam library years ago.
I can still vividly recount stories of playing the game in my 10th grade Journalism room, which would later become my 11th grade AP Language classroom.
It was a strange transition.
The important thing to know is that this game meant a lot to me, so when it got a re-released on the Switch I knew I had to jump back on the train.
It's a really solid port, even if the Switch controls take a little time to adjust to.
I also officially "beat" the game for the first time this year! So the port gets some brownie points for that.
Add the portability of playing a game with such a unique world and art style on the go, and I'll absolutely recommend Don't Starve any day.
Ah yes, Minecraft.
Just what is there to say about Minecraft that hasn't already been said?
It's the survival/building blocky simulator that took the world by storm, inspired a trillion clones and now serves as a permanent cash cow for Microsoft. I absolutely adored Minecraft for years on both my desktop computer and Xbox 360. I even downloaded the Technic Modpack back in the day after watching the Yogscast.
While the game disappeared from my radar, the Switch brought it back to life for my friends and I.
As soon as this port dropped we all jumped on and had a ball playing over the summer. Now that I can capture pictures off my Switch I should go back and show you all some of the amazing stuff we built together.
Unfortunately, once the game shifted to be the all-encompassing Microsoft edition (and once the semester started) we all dropped off.
But if nothing else, Minecraft remains a great cooperative option for us to play together going forward.
Wizard of Legend is the first of what I would consider a Renaissance of indie games on the Switch that kept me gaming more than I usually would this year.
I love Wizard of Legend. Especially considering the dev team (Contingent99) is made up of two people, the fact that such a beautiful and fun title exists in the marketplace is a true testament to gaming culture in 2018.
It's a fast-paced roguelike dungeon crawler that lets you blast out massive elemental attacks as though you're the Avatar. AND it's couch co-op.
Unfortunately, the game's content is admittedly a bit shallow. As an experience Wizard of Legend rules, but once you've collected all the spells, you've kind of seen everything.
It's a game I'll happily return to and play again, and I by no means regret spending my money. But there just happen to be some better, similar games on this list.
I might have put this higher if I had gotten around to it sooner.
Pokémon Let's Go is the amalgamated child of a Generation 1 remake and the capturing style of the mobile title Pokémon GO that took the world by storm a few summers back.
It's about as casual a Pokémon experience as you can get, and for long-time fans such as myself there are very strange choices made (like who decided to only make PC access from the bag?).
But that being said, it's an absolutely gorgeous Switch game, and every time I interact with Eevee my calloused heart melts.
The biggest selling point of Let's Go for me is that it's a couch co-op game I can play with my sister. If we weren't only about five hours and three badges into the game, it might easily top this list because of the fun we've had yelling at the screen so far.
If you have a younger sibling (or romantic partner?), this is the game that perfectly bridges the gap between forced co-op and pretending to let them help in a single player title.
Like I used to do a lot, admittedly.
I have mixed emotions about Kirby Star Allies.
As a long-time fan of the Kirby series, I was really looking forward to the pink puffball's next generation console game. That said, I wasn't disappointed by how much of a fun Kirby game it was.
I even got a nice Daily Titan article out with my initial reactions, and that somehow has nearly 5,000 views?
Wow, how did that happen?
Anyway though, as fun as the game is, it's seriously lacking in terms of difficulty and narrative — even for Kirby, who isn't usually known for those elements.
Because of that I don't feel like I can pick up the game as often as Squeak Squad or Super Star Ultra. But that being said… A ton of DLC came out for the game after I put it down, and I admittedly haven't tried most of the new Dream Characters.
So hey, maybe it's a lot better than where I left it the first time! Just based on my experiences now however, it seems like a solid fit for number 6.
I wrote a whole blog post about Deltarune weeks ago when I finally got around to playing it, so you can see my in-depth thoughts there.
What I will say is that much like its predecessor Undertale, Deltarune has a ton of mental staying power. It's arguably the game I played for the least amount of time this year, but I hold it in high regard because I keep humming that glorious battle theme and thinking about all the possibilities of future installments.
It's a game you just need to experience to understand. If you're a fan of Toby Fox I'm sure you already have, but even if you haven't played Undertale it might still be worth a look for fans of wacky fourth-wall comedy and Final Fantasy-esque gameplay.
I promise it's worth diving down the rabbit hole.
Enter the Gungeon is kind of the game I wish Wizard of Legend was.
It's a remarkably similar, being a roguelike dungeon crawler, but something about the way Gungeon's five randomized levels are utilized makes them feel so much more fresh over a long period of time than Wizard of Legend's three two-act levels.
Perhaps it has to do with the art style? Both are gorgeous examples of sprite work, but Gungeon's aesthetic of gun puns galore seems more entrancing and unique.
Perhaps it has to do with the weapon variety? All of the spells in Wizard are great, but their numbers pale in comparison to just how many guns and combination effects are in Gungeon.
Perhaps it has to do with the supplementary content? Wizard boils down to collecting the spells and costumes, but Gungeon has a series of underlying story "quests" and NPCs who give you extra tasks to complete while you unlock more weapons and power-ups.
Both of these games are wonderful, but Enter the Gungeon stands much taller in terms of its content and replayability. A testament to the breadth of skill from a studio like Dodge Roll under Devolver Digital.
Much like Minecraft, what is there to say about Super Smash Bros. that hasn't already been said?
I wrote a long post the other day about how much I love the single-player stuff in Ultimate, which has given me dozens of hours of enjoyment.
But that alone shouldn't have skyrocketed the game to number 3 on my list, right?
I'll admit, I'm giving Smash Ultimate some proactive credit. Simply because it's Smash Bros., I know for a fact it's going to be relevant for years in professional, competitive settings and among during casual friend hangouts.
Plus there are DLC characters already in the works, and I'm dying to play as Piranha Plant!
So yeah, Smash Bros. is a super fun game that I'm really glad is going to live on for years. As a result, it garners top billing.
… But really, what else did you expect from a Nintendo fanboy like me?
Hollow Knight is easily the best game I've played this year.
It has a darker art style, sense of humor and scale that create one of the richest worlds I've played with in years. Even the horrid Deepnest, a place I still shutter thinking about months later.
The gameplay is tight, offering a metroidvania experience which truly gets more fun as you advance through it by empowering the player's exploration and combat abilities.
It's also remarkably open-world in spite of needing certain abilities to advance in different areas, as my friends Jonathan and Juan each went through the game in completely different ways than I did.
The story is somber and open to interpretation. There are hints of different things going on that can only be discovered through a player's curiosity.
Hollow Knight is also full of great characters who at times embody well-known tropes, but at other times subvert them in heartbreaking ways. One of my favorite characters is a bug girl who simply dies unceremoniously.
My love came from simply imagining the larger role that she could have had which was tragically cut short. That's good implicit storytelling.
The game is seriously unique and I would say anyone should experience it.
There's also a whole host of DLC available that makes the game even more impressive! When it dropped on the Switch this year, I knew it was something I had to play based on the recommendations of a ton of my friends, and boy did it not disappoint.
Hollow Knight seriously would have been my favorite game this year… If something else hadn't stolen my heart in a different way.
So. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate came out on Switch this year.
I've been a Monster Hunter junkie since my first experience playing 4U on the 3DS. The series scratches all of my gaming itches: Impressively designed beasts to admire, fitting battle music for every situation, luck-based schedules of reinforcement with item collection and (of course) lots of armor and skills to facilitate hours of pre-planning and designing.
I wrote a whole blog post about that earlier this year, because it's honestly one of those things that drives my fervor for a game.
However, what made Gen Ultimate surpass every other game I've played this year was how the Nintendo Switch made it perfect bait for my friends and I to spend hours hunting.
Yeah, I no-lifed this game super hard as my stress relief.
The crazy thing is, even with all those hours put in I still have a dozen different armor sets in mind that I want to build. Even for weapons I'm trying outside of my favorite Hunting Horn style!
It may not be the deepest game from a narrative perspective, or the most novel game from a mechanical perspective…
But with nearly 100 large monsters and infinite possibilities to dick around with friends, Monster Hunter succeeds at being the game I've had the most fun with this year. As well as being the game I know I'll continue to love in 2019!
In case the pattern wasn't clear, 2018 was a great year for my Nintendo Switch. That console has really come into its own far more than the Wii U ever did (particularly with indie games), and I'm so glad to see it.
That said, let me know what some of your favorite games of the year were! I obviously don't own a PS4 or an Xbox One and couldn't put any games from those libraries on the list, but I know there were some phenomenal showings all across the board.
Here's to 2019 being as great a year for gaming as 2018 was!
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Armageddon on the Grid
Once more I rise from the dead.
Sorry about the second short break from blogging I took the last few days. The cold I tried to pretend I wasn't developing during finals week hit me extra hard once the high stress of exam season began to dissipate, and for two days all I could do was sleep and cough my head off.
However, if there was any benefit to take away from sidling the edge of death, it was that I have seen the face of Armageddon and am prepared for our inevitable, collective demise.
An Armageddon that is: Armagetron.
Welcome to a game that I had basically forgotten about until my Macintosh Desktop rescue. The original file had not been opened since 2009, when I discovered it during that sprite animation camp I talked about in my Smash Bros. wallpaper post.
But unlike a lot of the other relics of oughts Jasoncana, Armagetron Advanced is totally rad. After all, it's a simulator experience based on the light cycle races from 1982's TRON.
I had this whole plan set out after replaying the game to record footage so I could show off my sweet Armagetron skills, maybe even gif a few seconds of me dunking on computers.
Except turns out I don't exactly have good screen capture software that doesn't make the footage come out like this on the other end. Forewarning, this video is very choppy and kind of nauseating.
Was not going to be able to get the high-octane action that I originally wanted out of showing this game off.
Luckily Armagetron isn't complicated to explain, even if there's a nice amount of depth under the hood for things like customization. If you've seen the race sequence from the original TRON, you know exactly what you're getting.
You move around a digital grid leaving trails that immediately destroy (or derez) opponents. The aim of the game is to be the last man standing, with points earned for killing opponents and lost for ramming into other light trails or "committing suicide" against arena walls.
On top of customizing the color of your light cycle, Armagetron allows you to set up matches with as many AI (or people given a decent lan party) in as many parties as you want. Everything from the AI's intellect to the size of the battlefield and the amount of time light trails last can be altered.
For the most part, each trip to the grid feels unique because of the timeless style Tron imbued on its light cycle sequences. It makes for cinematic experiences even in a fairly basic simulation.
Yeah, the wall popping in after you seems like a graphical issue… But boy is it cool in practice.
It helps that on top a great general style, the game features really crunchy sound effects for the racers speed, doppler echoes as opponents move past and — of course — digital explosions.
Lots and lots of explosions.
Particularly your own.
Where I would argue Armagetron thrives the most is in its simplicity breeding implicit storytelling. A lot of computer players are named after applications like "word" or "excel," so it feels as though you're duking it out with your own computer's software out for revenge after yet another 2,000 word essay.
Plus, I'm a fan of situations where I need to time my turns and thread the needle:
Always exhilerating.
Or, like you can see in the featured image, those moments when you're boxed in and have to survive as long as possible driving in a square on the off-chance the AI dies before you run out of room.
Extra graphical touches like sparks when you grind as close to a wall or light trail as possible without killing yourself really sell these scenes:
The amount of times I died just trying to get that feeling of barely evading death are uncountable.
But of course that feeling of narrowly avoiding death is only superseded by the thrill of a well-won victory after pulling off death-defying tricks.
This basic victory screen is far more satisfying than it has any right to be.
While there isn't a whole lot to say about Armagetron Advanced past the basics, it still earns my high recommendation. If you want to feel like Jeff Bridges, this isn't a bad place to start.
In fact, while throwing this little post together, I discovered that the game has gotten updates as recently as 2016.
I haven't tried it the most recent update since I'm still stuck in the nostalgia trip of my beloved 2009 version, but from screenshots I know there are plenty of different game modes and graphical styles to choose from now.
This fan project stretches all the way back to the original Armagetron in 2004, so there's a ton of love put into it. Even if it's not getting much in the way of development recently, I'd still say you should all go support it.
Armagetron Advanced is something that shouldn't just be derezzed into obscurity.
Armagetron Advanced
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Entertainment Beat Report – March 23, 2018
I could have put out this Beat Report yesterday I suppose, just to keep it aligned with my actual Comm 436 class schedule… But honestly I've been fluctuating between Thursdays and Fridays so much with this mini-series that I really don't think it matters.
So I'm just going to use the midterm for the class that happened yesterday and the fact that I published two blog posts and want to space things out a bit as excuses for my laziness.
That said, let's see what was news in the world of video gaming this week.
Mario measurements marked via phallus pixels
Let's be serious for a second.
This is undoubtedly one of the greatest pieces of journalism I have ever had the pleasure of consuming.
Kotaku staff writer Gita Jackson wins all of the awards this week for taking mathematical calculations done by a Twitter user based on the promotional art for Mario Tennis Aces that assesses how large Luigi's junk is, and using that result to extrapolate on determining the official sizes of other characters in the Mario universe.
That's real, people.
My inclusion of this story above the actual big news this week may be a joke, but I genuinely do think this is an amazingly funny story that's worth a little bit of your time to read.
Never before have I seen the word 'penis' put into a story three times in such an unironic way, and it's just wonderful.
But that said, on with the real headlining news this week.
The 2018 Game Developers Conference
As much as I've been checked out from the gaming scene this week, undoubtedly the biggest thing that happened was GDC 2018 in San Francisco.
The annual conference took place from March 19 to 23 in the Moscone Center and frankly has so many different things to talk about that I'm not entirely sure where to start.
At the Game Developers Choice Awards, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild won Game of the Year. It was joined in the pantheon of winners by Night in the Woods, winner of the Excellence in Narrative award and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Cuphead, which got Best Visual Art and Best Debut Game, Horizon Zero Dawn, which won Best Technology, and more.
Atari showed off a prototype of its newest upcoming console, which is crazy considering they have not had one since the Atari Jaguar in 1993.
More game developers were kept out of the conference thanks to President Trump's travel ban, according to a Polygon article.
Really all of this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of everything that happened over the conference's four days. It's worth going back and just looking over everything that happened as far as announcements and speakers and whatever else, but I don't think I'm going to delve too deep right now.
There's more news to discuss, after all.
'Sea of Thieves' launch faces server problems
Rare's latest game, the much anticipated pirate swashbuckling simulator Sea of Thieves, has not had the smoothest sailing opening to the public.
There have apparently been so many server-related problems afflicting players that Rare is taking the game down tomorrow to perform maintenance. That's not really a super good sign as far as first impressions go.
The game has also received middling reviews (here are a couple of them: 1 – 2), so whether or not this one is as big a staying power as people were anticipating it would be is in limbo at the moment.
'A Way Out' offers players opportunities to play together without spending a lot
This one was a suggestion straight from my buddy Mitchell.
A new prison break-themed co-operative game, A Way Out apparently allows players to join a friend's session of the game so long as they have the demo. No need to buy two copies, according to an article on Kotaku by a familiar writer.
This is an interesting concept put into the game by the developers at Hazelight… Though I can't help but cynically reflect on the fact that this feature existed on the Nintendo DS for years.
Though if it's inclusion here implies the feature may make a feasible comeback in the near future, who am I to complain?
Sort of a shorter report this week, in part due to my aforementioned laziness and in part due to me not exactly coming across a lot of 'big news' to go over.
I mean sure I could talk about the Deviljho again now that he has been unleashed in Monster Hunter World, but you can just check out my last report for details on that.
In the meantime, it's about time that I head home to start Spring Break. I'll likely post a few things over the week with whatever extra time I scrounge up, but for the most part I think I'm going to just relax and enjoy it a bit.
If there's any other gaming news you picked up on that I didn't, let me know about it in the comments below!
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'Win-win' for wildlife, African farmers stems from partnership
By Krishna Ramanujan |
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The KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area is home to close to half of elephants remaining on Earth.
Namibian farmer Robin Lyonga was hoping to sell his cattle to an accredited slaughterhouse that exported meat for a good price. He planned to sell off part of his herd to help his brother get training for a better-paying career.
But then another herder's cow many miles away developed foot-and-mouth disease, forcing the slaughterhouse to shut down. Lyonga's animals were quarantined, and all cows in the area were declared ineligible for sale.
Such issues arise from international policies for managing animal diseases that go back more than half a century and emphasize the geographic origin of livestock to try to prevent trade of meat infected with foot-and-mouth disease.
The viral foot-and-mouth disease – which doesn't infect people but can sicken livestock and is a concern when it comes to meat trade – is spread largely via contact between livestock and African buffalo, natural hosts of the virus that don't get ill from it. To limit such contact, thousands of miles of fencing have been built through southern African wildlife areas since the late 1950s, often with subsidies from international donors. These fences cut off the natural migration routes of wild animals and have led to the deaths of millions of them over the last 70 years.
Now, international animal health and wildlife conservation officials, brought together by a professor from the College of Veterinary Medicine, have worked to develop a new approach that focuses on safe guidelines for meat processing to ensure the disease-free status of products, and reducing the need for fences.
"Today, wildlife is increasingly an engine for the region's economic growth," said Steve Osofsky, D.V.M. '89, the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy, who prior to joining Cornell in July has been working on wildlife policy issues in southern Africa for more than 20 years.
"Unlike during the colonial era, when wildlife was seen to have little value, nature-based tourism today contributes as much or more to the gross domestic product of many southern African nations as agriculture, forestry and fisheries combined," Osofsky said.
In the last decade, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe established the 500,000-square-kilometer Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, or KAZA TFCA, centered around the wildlife-rich Zambezi-Okavango-Chobe-Victoria Falls region. The KAZA TFCA is home to about 250,000 elephants, the majority of the world's remaining elephant population.
In November the KAZA TFCA, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Cornell, hosted a major regional forum in Zimbabwe to move toward implementing the new approach, called commodity-based trade.
"The door is open to a truly win-win opportunity both for livestock farmers and for tourism and related industries involved with transfrontier conservation areas," Osofsky said.
Cattle that have been managed in accordance with an official foot-and-mouth disease control policy and then quarantined before slaughter may be considered safe for trade, provided that the meat (in the case of products not undergoing further value-added processing) is deboned, deglanded, properly aged (so the pH drops accordingly) and chilled before export.
"If livestock agriculture is no longer solely dependent on veterinary fencing, then KAZA's vision for the restoration of major movement corridors for the region's spectacular wildlife indeed has a chance of being realized," he added.

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No One Will Stop You From Getting Whatever Booster You Want
The CDC indicated that it would move toward a hands-off stance: Booster-eligible people should stick with one brand, but may mix and match at will.
By Katherine J. Wu
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Mixing and matching vaccine brands is officially on the table in the United States. But that option might soon be billed as the B-list choice.
Last night, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky gave the green light for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson booster shots, the long-awaited follow-up to a similar recommendation given to the Pfizer formulation last month. As the endorsement stands, all who are eligible for an additional jab—which now includes tens of millions more Americans—should be able to pick whatever booster brand they like. But discussions among a panel of experts who advised Walensky hinted at a catch: The agency has yet to issue its final clinical guidance on who, specifically, might want to boost with what—and an early draft of the recommendations suggests that Americans "should" stick with the same brand they got in their first go-round.
Switching to a different shot would be allowed, as was authorized by the FDA on Wednesday; per the draft CDC guidance, people may opt to mix and match based on availability or preference, after assessing their individual risks and benefits. (As a reminder, the FDA's authorizations tell Americans what vaccines they're allowed to get. The CDC follows that up with advice on what folks should do with those options.)
The CDC's stance on mixing and matching, then, could end up being a relatively soft one, neither extolment nor excoriation. That might also be the most practical course of action for the agency, given the variables involved and the lack of clear-cut evidence that could untangle them. But the wishy-washiness of Pick whatever is confusing as hell.
Consider, first, the sheer number of choices now available to booster-eligible Americans (a limited set of mRNA recipients, and all folks who got J&J). With three approved or authorized vaccines, the simplest mix-and-match matrix has nine possible combos. But that's an underestimate of the absolutely unmanageable number of variations therein. Moderna's third shots, for instance, come in full doses for immunocompromised people and half doses for everyone else. The timing of additional shots might matter, too: People who get a second injection of J&J half a year after their first seem to churn out more antibodies than people who wait just two months. Clearly, inoculation isn't just about which vaccines you're getting. It's about which vaccines, when, how much, how often, in what order, on and on and on—an absolute multiverse of choices. Add to that the inevitable differences among individual immune systems, and just start to imagine the terror of the resulting flow chart. Against that chaotic-evil backdrop, the CDC's interim preference for homogeneity has a certain appeal—even if it sets up a slightly judgy juxtaposition between what's by the book and, essentially, what the mavericks might do, if they feel like it.
Read: Should you mix and match your booster shot?
Then again, maybe what the CDC says is, at this point, kind of moot. Millions of people have already boosted, some of them ahead of eligibility. Now, with even more choices available, "people who care will vote with their feet," Céline Gounder, an infectious-disease physician at Bellevue Hospital, in New York, told me. That may in the CDC guidance is easy to grab and run with. For anyone who has made up their mind, in any direction, the agency's relatively hands-off approach isn't all that useful (or hard to ignore).
Cross-vaccine boosting can certainly come with perks. People won't have to stress about matching brands across doses; individuals in at-risk groups might have the flexibility to avoid rare, shot-specific side effects. The strategy might even be more protective. None of that, though, makes actually selecting a booster any easier. As things stand, the decision requires a small leap of faith, or at least some immunological inference. Data on mixing and matching are still relatively scant, though the early evidence looks promising. A recent National Institutes of Health study found that switching shots seems to juice out antibodies at least as well as, and in some cases quite a bit better than, staying the course with one brand. That seems especially true for the OG J&J crowd: mRNA boosters sent antibody levels soaring, compared with a second helping of J&J. (A caveat: The study boosted with the full Moderna dose, not the half dose that the FDA authorized for non-immunocompromised people.) If that pattern holds, J&J, already the least popular vaccine in the U.S., might become even more of an underdog.
That's not for sure. Gounder is advising caution: The NIH study was small, tracking an imperfect proxy for protection in fewer than 500 people for a very limited period of time. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an infectious-disease physician and researcher at Emory University, in Atlanta, is a bit more optimistic, and told me that she finds the mix-and-match data compelling enough to offer the strategy. The trends in the NIH study, she pointed out, seem well in line with the months of data that have come out of places such as the United Kingdom, which adopted a hybrid approach early on, albeit for original doses and with a different set of brands (Pfizer and AstraZeneca).
Ideally, mixing and matching could blur the brand boundaries between vaccinated Americans, effectively collapsing more of us into the same pretty-well-protected pool. (Did you get Pfizer or Moderna? J&J? Who cares?) Or, it could splinter us into infinite subgroups that become ever more difficult to compare.
Collecting good data on vaccine responses is getting harder as inoculation becomes more bespoke. With so many Americans now poised to choose their own vaccine adventure—you know, as they may—the differences among regimens might get tougher to pin down. We need that data: What we learn now will—hopefully—help us design better, safer, more efficient vaccine regimens for future generations. But if fewer people embark on similar trajectories, they could get more difficult to group together. Studies might have to be more limited in scope, or work harder to combine data from different parts of the country. That's not impossible, Saad Omer, a vaccine expert and epidemiologist at Yale, told me. But it does make things "more challenging."
Some of this beta-testing vibe harkens back to last winter, when experts heatedly debated the merits of skipping or delaying second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Certain countries, including the U.K., spaced out the shots; the U.S. and others stuck to the very trim gaps prescribed by trials. The delay was a gamble, since it left people partially protected for longer and sent mixed messages to a frustrated public. But now it looks beneficial. Really, we were all guinea pigs—and this mass round of boosting is slating us for a discombobulation redux.
We won't all be winners; someone always has to be in the group that fares worse. Then again, "worse" is always relative. Anyone who's playing the booster game is already, technically, fully vaccinated, putting them ahead of the billions around the globe who still are not. Titanji pointed out that more Americans have gotten boosters than people have received first doses in Nigeria, a country with some 200 million residents.
Even in the U.S., getting more first shots to people remains the bigger priority—that's how we collectively contain the coronavirus. But the hyper-individualistic American approach to the pandemic is once again nudging each of us to chart our own course. The government has kind of shrugged about mix-and-match boosting, and punted the decision to us: Choose whichever path seems right to you; turn to page 7; hope for the best. Here's the trick, though—no one's sure where this chapter ends. Good luck, I guess.


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e-consumers bite back
Outline of legislation that will begin to regulate how business is conducted on the internet
1st June 2000 | Paul Motion
It has been and is still fashionable to characterise Internet business as an unregulated minefield where contracts are made and credit card details handed over at the peril of the consumer. Some lawyers warn that companies who post a website invite litigation from around the globe. As in "bricks and mortar" business, the true picture is that most transactions whether B2B (business to business) or B2C (business to consumer) pass off smoothly, without litigation or resorting to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). During these next 12 months a number of important new consumer rights and business obligations will have been introduced in relation to web sales. Both consumers and businesses need to keep abreast of the changes and their implications.
This Act came into force on 1 March 2000, implementing the provisions of the EC Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) into UK law, and thus replacing the Data Protection Act 1984. The old regime prevented the processing of personal data by equipment operating automatically. The new regime redefines "personal data" to include structured manual records which are part of a relevant filing system, and places an emphasis upon processing such data with the informed consent of the individual. Businesses must review their registration obligations under the new data protection law to ensure compliance.
The new regime has greatly extended the definition of "processing" personal data to now include holding, obtaining, and recording information. It only allows such processing when one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met, and the processing of "sensitive" personal data (relating to race, political, sexual, religious or religious orientation) does require explicit consent. Under the new regime, an individual has the following rights:-
Access to personal data (Section 7)
Preventing the processing of personal data likely to cause damage or distress (Section 10)
Preventing the processing of personal data for the purposes of direct marketing (Section 11)
Preventing automatic decision taking at work in relation to performance, credit worthiness, reliability or conduct, based solely upon data.
Correcting or deleting inaccurate personal data
Request for an assessment of an alleged breach (Section 42) - anyone who is or thinks he may be directly affected by the processing of personal data may ask the Data Protection Commissioner to undertake an assessment as to whether that processing has been carried out in compliance with the Act.
Right to compensation
Internet lawyers advising businesses will need to think about the steps which an online advertiser must take in order to ensure that data captured from its website is processed "fairly" and that relevant consents are obtained. If a website owner or operator is using cookies to collect personal data about customers in order to personalise the appearance of the website upon the customers next visit, the user must be made aware of the uses to which the cookie information is going to be put. The US company Doubleclick.com was recently the subject of controversy because of its plans to link up web data with off-line personal data. Of course the Data Protection Act [and Directive] only apply to the European Union. It is still illegal to send personal data to non-compliant countries (ie outside EU). Data protection in the US remains unregulated. The EC and the US government have recently agreed the "safe-harbour" principle (March 2000) which proposes US companies register with the relevant state department to confirm that the company will adopt data protection responsibilities in line with the EC. However, litigation in the courts does continue over data protection issues, and businesses are well advised to ensure contractual obligations exist between parties to ensure EC data protection compliance.
Distance Selling Directive 97/7/EC1
Member states were required to implement the Directive by 5th June 2000. The cumbersomely titled Consumer Protection (Contracts Concluded by Means of Distance Communication) Regulations 2000 are ready and waiting in the wings. However the very latest DTI position at the time of writing is that no decision has been made, so that an "opt out" from some obligations is still posible for the United Kingdom. However, on the basis that other member states may enact legislation, it is still worth noting that key provisions of the Directive which may have been interpreted by some as rather draconian.
Consumers must be given prescribed information at the outset of the transaction: name and address of seller, details of product or service, information about price and payment, and the customer's right to cancel.
The right to cancel is absolute - if the customer decides within 7 days not to proceed with the contract, that is the end of the matter. No justification or other reason need be given. (Does not apply to perishable or made to order items).
The supplier must also confirm the customer's order in writing or e-mail, and which must include conditions for exercising the right of withdrawal, address for complaint, any after sale service and guarantee, conditions for cancelling the contract where it is of an unspecified duration or exceeds one year.
Unless the customer agrees to the contrary, the supplier must complete the order within 30 days.
Sending unsolicited faxes and e-mails ("spamming") without prior consent will be banned. The DTI is currently debating whether consumers should opt in or opt out of a consent registration scheme for unsolicited e-mails.
The Directive does not apply to business to business transactions. Under the Directive, obligations placed upon business are ones of strict liability, and include criminal offences. For example, failure to prove that follow-up information was sent to the consumer by e-mail or in writing, or by sending out information not prescribed to be sent out at the outset, renders the contract unenforceable against the purchaser. Several City commentators have suggested that the Directive gives the consumer, in certain circumstances, the right to treat goods purchased on the web as unsolicited, and to avoid paying for them – a remarkable innovation if the correct view.
The ISDN Directive (97/66/EC)
For the sake of completeness it should be noted that since 1st May 1999, businesses can elect to opt out of receiving "spam" faxes and direct marketing calls - Telecommunications Data Protection and Privacy Regulations 1999 (SII999/2093).
Proposed Distance Selling (Financial Services) Directive
This proposed directive follows on from the Distance Selling Directive to include the Financial Services industry. The proposed Directive is still under consideration by the European Commission and DTI, but proposals include:-
(a) Terms and Conditions of the distant sale of financial products must be transmitted to the consumer by a "durable medium" which unlike in the Distance Selling Directive, is defined. A durable medium could include e- mail for this purpose, but does not allow an "option button" on the web site which the consumer can press to download the material.
(b) Terms and Conditions may be transmitted by e-mail even where some other provision requires that they be in writing. On the face of it this conflicts with the Consumer Credit Directive 98/27/EC and may mean that certain existing regulations promulgated under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 may need re-writing.
(c) Terms and Conditions must be comprehensible: lawyers advising web designers may have their work cut out
Comparative Advertising Regulations 2000
New comparative advertising regulations came into force on 1 March 2000. These are not exclusively aimed at distance selling contracts but, nonetheless are relevant to them. Website advertisements will fall foul of the Comparative Advertising Regulations if they are:
fail to compare like with like
fail to compare one or more material and relevant features
might cause confusion between the advertiser and a competitor
denigrate or discredit a competitor
taking unfair advantage of the goodwill inherent in a competitor's mark
offering goods or services which are replicas or imitations of similar goods and services.
The regulations are incorporated into the Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 as a consequence of the EU Directive (97/55/EC) intended to harmonise the law on comparative advertising and reduce barriers to pan European advertising.
The Injunctions Directive 98/27/EC
This Directive will come into force in the UK on 1st January 2001. The new regime will protect the consumer by allowing interested bodies, for example the Consumer's Association (the publishers of "Which") or the Advertising Standards Authority, to apply directly to the courts to stop infringements of, amongst others, the Misleading Advertising Directive (84/450/EEC as amended by 97/55EC). It is understood that holiday brochures can expect early attention.
Proposed e-commerce directive
Debate is taking place in Member States as to whether Article 13 of the Brussels Convention should be amended. At the moment, a consumer may sue in his home jurisdiction only if he has been targeted by advertising in that jurisdiction. Otherwise, the normal rules of "domicile" apply subject to the special jurisdiction rules in relation to place of performance of contract. The proposed amendment to Article 13 of the convention would state in terms that consumers may sue in their home jurisdiction regardless of where the contract was concluded. The e centreUK Legal Advisory Group2 is providing the DTI3 with information concerning the implications of this Directive, and are proposing to defer the implementation of the Directive until the establishment of an on-line dispute settlement regime which will assist businesses and consumers in reaching agreements with on-line disputes.
Hitherto it has been thought that the risk of doing business on the Internet rested primarily upon the shoulders of the consumer. These new regulations will impose significant burdens upon business. Websites will have to be very carefully worded, and adequate notice of the prescribed information will have to be provided to consumers, under peril of the contract being rendered unenforceable by virtue of the Distance Selling Directive. Websites will have to be very carefully worded in general. On the assumption that the Distance Selling Directive is given effect, adequate notice of the prescribed information will have to be provided to consumers and follow-up procedures refined considerably. How do you ensure that adequate notice is given to consumers of their various rights as set out above, if the only medium for communicating them is a two-inch square screen of the text? At a well-attended Edinburgh seminar hosted by one of the world's biggest telephone companies on 26 April 2000, the answer to this question was a rather disconcerting "don't know". Oh what tangled webs we weave! However help may be at hand.
TrustUK
TrustUK, the website accreditation scheme which is being drawn up by the Alliance for Electronic Business, aims to give businesses confidence that the content of their website complies with strict codes of practice. Obviously this will give the consumer confidence when purchasing from the website.4
Paul Motion is a Solicitor Advocate and Associate with Ledingham Chalmers, Edinburgh. He is the Scottish Legal Group Chairman for e centreUK which advises on standards and best practice for e-business.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lif/dat/1997/en_397L0007.html
www.e-centre.org.uk
www.dti.gov.uk
TrustUK came into force for businesses in February 2000.
The consumer launch date is 18th July 2000. For further details, e-mail: secretariat@trustuk.org.uk.
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Belgien news
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Nach der Anschlagserie von Brüssel mit mindestens 34 Toten und nahezu Verletzten befindet sich Belgien im Ausnahmezustand. In der belgischen. Aktuelle News, Bilder und Videos zum Thema Belgien auf jannejuuksur.eu im Überblick. Jetzt Nachrichten und spannende Berichte zu Belgien lesen!. Immer mehr Kinder und Jugendliche demonstrieren für den Klimaschutz - und schwänzen dafür die Schule - so wie in Belgien. Ihr Vorbild ist die 16 Jahre alte.
The Treaty of Verdun in divided the region into Middle and West Francia and therefore into a set of more or less independent fiefdoms which, during the Middle Ages , were vassals either of the King of France or of the Holy Roman Emperor.
Many of these fiefdoms were united in the Burgundian Netherlands of the 14th and 15th centuries. The latter were ruled successively by the Spanish Spanish Netherlands and the Austrian Habsburgs Austrian Netherlands and comprised most of modern Belgium.
This was the theatre of most Franco-Spanish and Franco-Austrian wars during the 17th and 18th centuries. The reunification of the Low Countries as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands occurred at the dissolution of the First French Empire in , after the defeat of Napoleon.
In , the Belgian Revolution led to the separation of the Southern Provinces from the Netherlands and to the establishment of a Catholic and bourgeois, officially French-speaking and neutral, independent Belgium under a provisional government and a national congress.
The main political parties of the 19th century were the Catholic Party and the Liberal Party , with the Belgian Labour Party emerging towards the end of the 19th century.
French was originally the single official language adopted by the nobility and the bourgeoisie. It progressively lost its overall importance as Dutch became recognized as well.
This recognition became official in and in the parliament accepted a Dutch version of the Constitution. In , this outcry led the Belgian state to assume responsibility for the government of the colony, henceforth called the Belgian Congo.
The opening months of the war were known as the Rape of Belgium due to German excesses. Belgium assumed control of the German colonies of Ruanda-Urundi modern-day Rwanda and Burundi during the war, and in the League of Nations mandated them to Belgium.
In the aftermath of the First World War, Belgium annexed the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy in , thereby causing the presence of a German-speaking minority.
German forces again invaded the country in May , and 40, Belgians, over half of them Jews, were killed during the subsequent occupation and The Holocaust.
From September to February the Allies liberated Belgium. The latter has now become the European Union, for which Belgium hosts major administrations and institutions, including the European Commission , the Council of the European Union and the extraordinary and committee sessions of the European Parliament.
Belgium has three main geographical regions; the coastal plain in the northwest and the central plateau both belong to the Anglo-Belgian Basin, and the Ardennes uplands in the southeast to the Hercynian orogenic belt.
The coastal plain consists mainly of sand dunes and polders. Further inland lies a smooth, slowly rising landscape irrigated by numerous waterways, with fertile valleys and the northeastern sandy plain of the Campine Kempen.
The thickly forested hills and plateaux of the Ardennes are more rugged and rocky with caves and small gorges. Cfb , like most of northwest Europe.
The average precipitation per month varies between 54 millimetres 2. However, due to consistent efforts by the various levels of government in Belgium, the state of the environment in Belgium is gradually improving.
This led to Belgium being ranked as one of the top 10 countries 9 out of in terms of environmental protection trends, and to Belgium being ranked in as the 24th country out of for environmental protection.
In particular, the Flemish region of Belgium has the highest waste diversion rate in Europe. Almost 75 percent of the residential waste produced there is reused, recycled, or composted.
The territory of Belgium is divided into three Regions, two of which, the Flemish Region and Walloon Region , are in turn subdivided into provinces ; the third Region, the Brussels Capital Region , is neither a province nor a part of a province.
Belgium is a constitutional , popular monarchy and a federal parliamentary democracy. The bicameral federal parliament is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of Representatives.
The former is made up of 50 senators appointed by the parliaments of the communities and regions and 10 co-opted senators. Belgium has compulsory voting and thus maintains one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world.
The King currently Philippe is the head of state , though with limited prerogatives. He appoints ministers, including a Prime Minister, that have the confidence of the Chamber of Representatives to form the federal government.
The Council of Ministers is composed of no more than fifteen members. With the possible exception of the Prime Minister, the Council of Ministers is composed of an equal number of Dutch-speaking members and French-speaking members.
The Court of Cassation is the court of last resort, with the Court of Appeal one level below. Christian Democrats , Liberals , and Social Democrats.
A string of Christian Democrat coalition governments from was broken in after the first dioxin crisis , a major food contamination scandal. The government led by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt from to achieved a balanced budget, some tax reforms , a labour-market reform, scheduled nuclear phase-out and instigated legislation allowing more stringent war crime and more lenient soft drug usage prosecution.
Restrictions on withholding euthanasia were reduced and same-sex marriage legalized. The government promoted active diplomacy in Africa [56] and opposed the invasion of Iraq.
For more than a year, the country experienced a political crisis. On that day a new government , led by Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme , the actual winner of the federal elections of June , was sworn in by the king.
On 15 July Leterme announced the resignation of the cabinet to the king, as no progress in constitutional reforms had been made.
A few hours later, the new government under Prime Minister Yves Leterme was sworn in. On 22 April , Leterme again offered the resignation of his cabinet to the king [66] after one of the coalition partners, the OpenVLD , withdrew from the government, and on 26 April King Albert officially accepted the resignation.
By 30 March this set a new world record for the elapsed time without an official government, previously held by war-torn Iraq.
The federal election coinciding with the regional elections resulted in a further electoral gain for the Flemish nationalist N-VA, although the incumbent coalition composed of Flemish and French-speaking Social Democrats, Liberals, and Christian Democrats maintains a solid majority in Parliament and in all electoral constituencies.
It is the first time N-VA is part of the federal cabinet, while the French-speaking side is represented only by the MR, which achieved a minority of the public votes in Wallonia.
Following a usage which can be traced back to the Burgundian and Habsburg courts, [70] in the 19th century it was necessary to speak French to belong to the governing upper class, and those who could only speak Dutch were effectively second-class citizens.
While the people in Southern Belgium spoke French or dialects of French, and most Brusselers adopted French as their first language, the Flemings refused to do so and succeeded progressively in making Dutch an equal language in the education system.
The constitutional language areas determine the official languages in their municipalities, as well as the geographical limits of the empowered institutions for specific matters.
The overlapping boundaries of the Regions and Communities have created two notable peculiarities: Conflicts about jurisdiction between the bodies are resolved by the Constitutional Court of Belgium.
The structure is intended as a compromise to allow different cultures to live together peacefully. It controls substantial parts of public health, home affairs and foreign affairs.
Extensions to personal matters less directly connected with language comprise health policy curative and preventive medicine and assistance to individuals protection of youth, social welfare, aid to families, immigrant assistance services, and so on.
Regions have authority in fields that can be broadly associated with their territory. These include economy, employment, agriculture, water policy, housing, public works, energy, transport, the environment, town and country planning, nature conservation, credit and foreign trade.
They supervise the provinces, municipalities and intercommunal utility companies. In several fields, the different levels each have their own say on specifics.
With education, for instance, the autonomy of the Communities neither includes decisions about the compulsory aspect nor allows for setting minimum requirements for awarding qualifications, which remain federal matters.
Because of its location at the crossroads of Western Europe , Belgium has historically been the route of invading armies from its larger neighbours.
With virtually defenceless borders, Belgium has traditionally sought to avoid domination by the more powerful nations which surround it through a policy of mediation.
The Belgians have been strong advocates of European integration. The Belgian Armed Forces have about 47, active troops.
The operational commands of the four components are subordinate to the Staff Department for Operations and Training of the Ministry of Defence , which is headed by the Assistant Chief of Staff Operations and Training , and to the Chief of Defence.
The effects of the Second World War made collective security a priority for Belgian foreign policy. This mission was the first in a long line of UN missions which the Belgians supported.
Its main exports are machinery and equipment, chemicals, finished diamonds, metals and metal products, and foodstuffs. The Belgian economy is heavily service-oriented and shows a dual nature: Since , through the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union , Belgium and Luxembourg have been a single trade market with customs and currency union.
Belgium was the first continental European country to undergo the Industrial Revolution , in the early 19th century.
The and oil crises sent the economy into a recession; it was particularly prolonged in Wallonia, where the steel industry had become less competitive and experienced serious decline.
As of [update] , the budget was balanced and public debt was equal to Unemployment rates of 8. By October , this had grown to 8.
Belgium switched to the euro in , with the first sets of euro coins being minted in Belgium experiences some of the most congested traffic in Europe.
In , commuters to the cities of Brussels and Antwerp spent respectively 65 and 64 hours a year in traffic jams. There is a large economic gap between Flanders and Wallonia.
Since then, Flanders has been prosperous, among the wealthiest regions in Europe, whereas Wallonia has been languishing. As of , the unemployment rate of Wallonia is over double that of Flanders.
The divide has played a key part in the tensions between the Flemish and Walloons in addition to the already-existing language divide.
Pro-independence movements have gained high popularity in Flanders as a consequence. The 16th century Early Modern flourishing of Western Europe included cartographer Gerardus Mercator , anatomist Andreas Vesalius , herbalist Rembert Dodoens [] [] [] [] and mathematician Simon Stevin among the most influential scientists.
Bakelite was developed in — by Leo Baekeland. In , he started a series of conferences, the Solvay Conferences on Physics and Chemistry, which have had a deep impact on the evolution of quantum physics and chemistry.
Pierre Deligne in and Jean Bourgain in The most densely inhabited area is Flanders. The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian , , French , , Dutch , , Moroccan 80, , Portuguese 43, , Spanish 42, , Turkish 39, and German 37, Of these, , 6.
Since the modification of the Belgian nationality law in more than 1. The largest group of immigrants and their descendants in Belgium are Moroccans.
Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French and German. A number of non-official minority languages are spoken as well.
French-speaking Belgians are often referred to as Walloons, although the French speakers in Brussels are not Walloons.
The total number of native Dutch speakers is estimated to be about 6. Roughly 23, more German speakers live in municipalities near the official Community.
Both Belgian Dutch and Belgian French have minor differences in vocabulary and semantic nuances from the varieties spoken respectively in the Netherlands and France.
Many Flemish people still speak dialects of Dutch in their local environment. Walloon , considered either as a dialect of French or a distinct Romance language , [] [] is now only understood and spoken occasionally, mostly by elderly people.
Walloon is divided into four dialects, which along with those of Picard , [] are rarely used in public life and have largely been replaced by French.
According to the Eurobarometer , Non religious people comprised the Symbolically and materially, the Roman Catholic Church remains in a favourable position.
In the early s there were approximately 42, Jews in Belgium. The Jewish Community of Antwerp numbering some 18, is one of the largest in Europe, and one of the last places in the world where Yiddish is the primary language of a large Jewish community mirroring certain Orthodox and Hasidic communities in New York, New Jersey, and Israel.
In addition most Jewish children in Antwerp receive a Jewish education. This is particularly the case in eastern Wallonia and areas along the French border.
The largest group of immigrants in Belgium are Moroccans, with , people. The Turks are the third largest group, and the second largest Muslim ethnic group, numbering , The Belgians enjoy good health.
According to estimates, the average life expectancy is Death in Belgium is mainly due to heart and vascular disorders, neoplasms , disorders of the respiratory system and unnatural causes of death accidents, suicide.
Non-natural causes of death and cancer are the most common causes of death for females up to age 24 and males up to age Healthcare in Belgium is financed through both social security contributions and taxation.
Health insurance is compulsory. Health care is delivered by a mixed public and private system of independent medical practitioners and public, university and semi-private hospitals.
Health care service are payable by the patient and reimbursed later by health insurance institutions, but for ineligible categories of patients and services so-called 3rd party payment systems exist.
For the first time in Belgian history, the first child was euthanized following the 2 year mark of the removal of the euthanization age restrictions.
The child had been euthanized due to an incurable disease that was inflicted upon the child. Although there may have been some support for the euthanization there is a possibility of controversy due to the issue revolving around the subject of assisted suicide.
Education is compulsory from 6 to 18 years of age for Belgians. Mirroring the dual structure of the 19th-century Belgian political landscape, characterized by the Liberal and the Catholic parties , the educational system is segregated within a secular and a religious segment.
The secular branch of schooling is controlled by the communities, the provinces, or the municipalities, while religious, mainly Catholic branch education, is organized by religious authorities, although subsidized and supervised by the communities.
Nowadays, to a certain extent, cultural life is concentrated within each language Community, and a variety of barriers have made a shared cultural sphere less pronounced.
Contributions to painting and architecture have been especially rich. The Mosan art , the Early Netherlandish , [] the Flemish Renaissance and Baroque painting [] and major examples of Romanesque , Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque architecture [] are milestones in the history of art.
The avant-garde CoBrA movement appeared in the s, while the sculptor Panamarenko remains a remarkable figure in contemporary art.
Belgian contributions to architecture also continued into the 19th and 20th centuries, including the work of Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde , who were major initiators of the Art Nouveau style.
The vocal music of the Franco-Flemish School developed in the southern part of the Low Countries and was an important contribution to Renaissance culture.
Contemporary popular music in Belgium is also of repute. Jazz musician Toots Thielemans and singer Jacques Brel have achieved global fame.
Nowadays, singer Stromae has been a musical revelation in Europe and beyond, having great success. In the heavy metal scene, bands like Machiavel , Channel Zero and Enthroned have a worldwide fan-base.
The poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize in literature in Jacobs and Willy Vandersteen brought the Belgian cartoon strip industry a worldwide fame.
Belgian cinema has brought a number of mainly Flemish novels to life on-screen. Originated in and revived in the s, the Gentse Feesten have become a modern tradition.
Many highly ranked Belgian restaurants can be found in the most influential restaurant guides, such as the Michelin Guide. Contrary to their name, french fries are claimed to have originated in Belgium, although their exact place of origin is uncertain.
The national dishes are " steak and fries with salad", and " mussels with fries ". Since the s, sports clubs and federations are organized separately within each language community.
Belgians hold the most Tour de France victories of any country except France. Philippe Gilbert is the world champion. Another modern well-known Belgian cyclist is Tom Boonen.
With five victories in the Tour de France and numerous other cycling records, Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is regarded as one of the greatest cyclists of all time.
Belgium hosted the European Football Championships , and co-hosted the European Championships with the Netherlands.
Belgium also has a strong reputation in, motocross with the rider Stefan Everts. The Summer Olympics were held in Antwerp.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Brussels region is the de facto capital, but the City of Brussels municipality is the de jure capital.
Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.
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